I have also found it interesting that the "pro-rondo's" love to say that when he has high assist totals he makes everyone better but when he has low totals it is because the old guys missed shots.
So he gets the credit when others hit jumpers but none of the blame when they miss. And he doesnt get blame when the other team forces him to score and he cant?
Convenient
This is from an article that was on the front page a day or two ago, but someone on a Widards blog charted our "efficiency" (fg made vs fg attempted and turnovers) off of passes from Rondo. They found that the Celts score on about 35% of our fga/turnovers when the opportunity doesn't come from a Rondo pass and about 56% of our opportunities when they come from a pass from Rondo. I'd say that was quite an increase.
The people who don't like Rondo and the people who talk about how he's a liability on offense watch him game after game and have no idea that his passing has such an impact on the game. That seems pretty convenient as well.
You can use stats to prove anything, 85% of people know that
There are plenty of reasons for that to be the number, he handles the ball the most of any player when our best shooters are on the court. He is far and away our best (if not only) player who creates true transition opportunities and those are obviously going to be converted at a higher percentage and also there is the huge benefit that even though he takes the second most shots on the team, he has the distinct advantage of never passing the ball to himself and depending on him to convert.
As i said earlier in this post, I think rondo is the best passer in the league, bar none. So do not group me in as a person who "doesnt like rondo". I do not like the gross overrating of him.
Tim, you have never been able to answer me this question. If his value is so great and it is all his creativity and vision then why does the same thing happen in every close game.
Our offense shuts down the last 4 to 6 minutes when he is completely ignored as an offensive threat? If he can control the O so greatly with being a true scoring threat then why does it all just magically disappear when we need points the most?
And if you do not think that our quickest, most athletic, best ballhandling player being horrific at the foul line doesnt negatively impact our offense and ability to close out close 1/2 court games. You are just being intentionally dense.
Today he was 0-6 with a turnover and 3 assists and no foul shots (even though we were in the penalty) as the lead slipped away.
Really do not see the trend in these close games?
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